Creating and Launching a Course In Teachery

Let's create a Teachery course together!

We'll show you how in just seven steps you can have a course created, customized, and ready to sell in no time at all.

Step #1: Create a New Course

From the main Teach page in your account, click the big + Create a new Course or Theme button. Then, give your course a name and choose from one of our two Templates.

Our Minimal Template is our more modern template, but if you're looking for a course design that always has a left sidebar for navigation, use the Sidebar Template.

Step #2: Update your Header Image

The quickest way to give your course personality is with a branded Header Image!

Click the image icon and choose a file to upload. Recommended size for a full-width header image is 2400x500. Recommended size for a logo is 500x250.

Even if you're going to use just a logo, we recommend going with a 2400x500 wide image to ensure you can place and size your logo exactly where you want it.

Need Header Image inspiration?

If you need a little guidance to create an awesome Header Image you can click here to view our help doc on Header Images with an inspiration gallery of other course creator's Header Images!

Step #3: Complete your Overview Page

Your Overview page is the first thing your customer sees. Let's give them a warm welcome!

You can customize the "Get Started" area by removing any of the text blocks, removing your student's progress bar, or updating the text blocks with images, videos or anything you can dream up.

As you'll quickly learn in Teachery, any area with a light blue background is completely editable! You can click into these editable areas and click the (+) quick menu to add an image, or you can simply start typing and highlight your text to change any formatting.

Step #4: Add your lesson content

We've done some of the fun stuff on your Overview page, but now it's time for a very important step—we need to fill out your lessons .

Adding a lesson video

To start simple, let's add a lesson video by adding an embed content block to a lesson.

• Scroll to find the + Add Content Block button and click it

• Then choose + Add Embed Code

• In the dialog window, you'll paste in the embed code from your video provider

• Don't forget to click the "Preview embed" button before saving just to double-check your video embed code was added correctly

• Click Save and you've added a video!

After you add any lesson media, you can use the content blocks to add additional text, a transcript, or links to lesson resources.

And remember, if your lessons get too long or have multiple videos, you can always split them up into Sublessons!

Flexibile lesson content

What makes Teachery different from most platforms out there is YOU get to decide how to order your lesson content.

Want text first, then a lesson video? You got it.

Want an audio lesson, then a worksheet? You can do that.

However you want to structure your lessons, you can do that.

Embed anything you want!

If you want to add quizzes, comments, diagrams, etc. to your lessons, you can add just about anything that has an embed option! Use our embed content block to drop your code in and watch the magic unfold.

Step #5: Structure your lessons

Let's start organizing your lessons. Teachery courses are structured using Lessons, and then Sublessons are nested underneath them.

In the left sidebar, you'll see your lessons listed under Course Pages. You can always organize your lessons by dragging and dropping them around in the sidebar!

Step #6: Style your course colors & fonts

You've completed your Overview page, added your Lessons and the content within them, now it's time to style your course so it matches your brand!

Updating your font

To update your course font, head to your Overview page and from the Actions menu (in the top right), select Change Course Font.

Changing your course font will update your global font everywhere in your course .

Select from our list of 50+ fonts, or click here to learn how to upload your own custom fonts.

Updating your colors

Now let's update your course colors!

In the left sidebar, click on Style Your Course and you'll find our Style Editor where you can update every color of your course.

Our Style Editor is broken up into different sections, giving you maximum customization.

Pro-tip: Our Style Editor is great for setting your global styles, but while editing any page within your course, you can always highlight a piece of text and change the color, font, font size, and much more!

Step #7: Start selling your course!

Look at you! You have a fully styled course, ready to sell to your customers!

Connect your Stripe account

First step, we need to make sure you've connected your Stripe account. If you haven't done that yet, go to your Account > Integrations area and scroll down to connect a Stripe account*.

*If you've never heard of Stripe, don't worry! It's free to signup for, your customers never know it exists, and it's how we help you process payments from your customers.

Create a Payment Page

Now, let's create a simple Payment Page. From the Payment Pages section of the left sidebar, click + Add Payment Page.

Your course can have as many Payment Pages as you want! On these pages you can set:

• The price

• Whether it's fixed (ex: $20) or recurring (ex: $12/month)

• The currency

Customize your Payment Page

Once your Payment Page is created, you can add images, text, and style your Payment Page to match your branding.

You can also control what blocks are displayed like a countdown timer, gifting option, promo codes, and additional payment plans.

Once you're done customizing your Payment Page, your course is ready to buy!

If you're looking for more advanced features like Upsells, Affiliates, Gifting Courses and Promo Codes, click the links to learn more.

FINAL STEP: Share your course!

Last step—once your course is ready, it's time to tell your audience all about it!

You have a few options:

You can send people directly to your Payment Page to buy.

You can create a Landing Page using Teachery and promote that.

You can create a sales page with any page builder of your choice (Squarespace, Lead Pages, etc.) and link your buy buttons to your Teachery Payment Page.

If you want to add a few beta testers, you can manually add customers too.

For a handy place to find your shareable links, check out the Course Links page in your sidebar!

That's it! Congrats on creating a course in Teachery! If you're feeling excited about your new course, drop us a message in our support chat and share your Course URL with us so we can check it out!